Help Me Legalize Semiauto Rifle Big Game Hunting In Pennsylvania

[RealMuddyboots]

Wow, I thought I was reading a NFW crossbow thread. The choice of firearm includes a SA rifle. It's absurd to think OMG there will be bullets sprayed everywhere! News flash, SA weapons are legal for deer hunting. Not rifles but SA shotguns shooting a single projectile (no buckshot). So please tell me WTH is the difference? Expand it to rifles, magazine restriction to 5 to be similar to SA shotgun and be done with it. The photo is from this years PA regs. Yes, signing the petition.

General Hunting Regulations

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[2Die4]

Thanks for signing!

I, too, fail to see the difference between allowing a semi shotgun, but not a semi rifle...or pistol for that matter.

 

[Benfromalbuquerque]

The orange army is legion in the PA deer woods. I think adding rapid fire high power rifles sounds like an unnecessary liability. Sounds maybe worse than it is, as has already been mentioned NY allows semis for deer. NY doesn’t seem to have disproportionate deer season accidental shootings. OH always allowed semi shotguns and now also permits semi straight-wall rifles with the caveat that no long gun holds more than three shells.

 

[Schutzhund]

I read it and I'm wondering what the reasoning is for wanting them to be legalized? Being able to spray a barrage of bullets across the field or hillside does not contribute to safe hunting especially in a state with 630,00+ hunters in the state.
And this statement on the petition is not real-life. Even with a recoil or gas operated semi-auto you will lose the sight picture.

Semiautomatic rifles allow for faster, more accurate follow-up shots without disturbing the sight picture, which is crucial for quickly and humanely dispatching wounded game.

Look it up my friend, you can double that number of licenses sold...


Over 1.2 million buck tags? Eek

If you haven't experienced a few PA opening days you can't appreciate the lead being thrown in the air at times. It's not true for every corner of the state but it can be bad. You are safest in a tree stand


That's why I'm here...hunting western states and Alaska.

Pa resident..for now

 

[Schutzhund]

I like AR rifles just not in our deer woods. Love me, hate me ..I'll still buy you a beer if you are ever near 717 lancaster county.

 

[Mallardsx2]

Anyone who has hunted a opening day in PA would think fully automatic was already legal by sounds of it.

This.

 

[PAGOAT]

I signed it, the "hunters" in this state are ridiculous. I can use a Ruger 10/22 for small game but to take a Ruger mark iv to plink some squirrels is illegal. They feel like a change to a semi will ruin the deer hunting, news flash I can get about a dozen doe tags now days and hunt them for months. There is no one in the woods anywhere like the older days when I started hunting. The early muzzleloader was the end of the deer here then it was crossbows were ruining deer hunting then the Saturday opener was the end then Sunday hunting. Wait until the find out DMAP and other areas are rifle season through January oh my. The semi in deer season would be of no effect to anyone. People here semi and are right to a black rifle. For the folks against this what the difference with a Remington 760 or 742 in the deer woods?